We are pleased to present this exhibition for many very good reasons. Firstly, because we admire Diego de Mora’s work and we want to share it with you. His interiors are the testimony of a pictorial reality that is almost forgotten and barely practiced. A heritage that he handles with mastery and modernity. Secondly, because it allows us, once again, to celebrate drawing. In its thirty-five years of history, Caylus has dedicated quite a few exhibitions to its dissemination and knowledge: some as significant as From Fortuny to Saura (1989), Drawing in Spain (1992), The Role of Drawing in Spain (2006) or the sale of the Alcubierre Album in 2005, the most important historical collection of Andalusian drawings compiled in the 18th century.
Also, because now we do it with the help of Martínez Avezuela, a drawing studio created in 2020 within our gallery. But above all, because the occasion gives us a new opportunity to surround ourselves with those art lovers who, thanks to Diego de Mora, will turn their gaze towards the art of other times to see the present.
Enrique Gutiérrez de Calderón · José Antonio de Urbina · Alejandro Martínez
Bárbara Avezuela · Susana de Urbina · Cristina Uribe · Esther Plaza
Chinese Cabinet of the Casita del Príncipe, El Escorial
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 285 × 225 mm 2023
Duarte Pinto Coelho’s Salon, Madrid
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 360 × 240 mm 2022
Jerusalem Church in Bruges
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 680 × 360 mm 2023
Bathroom of the Duchess of Alba in the Palacio de Liria
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 240 × 240 mm 2023
Library of the Château d’Ussé
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 380 × 310 mm 2010
Paris Red Salon 1970
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 460 × 355 mm 2023
Country House in Antequera
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 460 × 350 mm 2011
Juan Abelló at Zanona
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 505 × 380 mm 2012
Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Venice
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 380 × 285 mm 2021
The Architect Francisco Bocanegra in his Flat
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 490 × 330 mm 2012
Salon in Bretagne
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 445 × 210 mm 2023
Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Venice
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 380 × 295 mm 2021
Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Venice
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 370 × 270 mm 2021
Château d’Anet, France
245 x 230 mm 2013
Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Venice
Inks, watercolour and gouache on paper 300 × 210 mm 2018
Diego de Mora
In the early decades of the 19th century, interior views flourished as an independent genre and enjoyed a veritable renaissance in post-World War II France thanks to Alexandre Serebriakoff. The young Diego de Mora met Serebriakoff when he was very old, in his Paris studio, and soon began to paint his own interior pictures with commissions ranging from the Royal Palace in Madrid to a ski club in St Moritz, from an Ottoman house on the Bosphorus to a Georgian house in Green Park, from a saddlery room in Extremadura to an Art Deco bathroom in Paris.